Presbyterian polity is shepherding. It is care of the sheep of Christ’s flock using a connectional relationship with graduated levels of oversight. The fundamental unit for all aspects of shepherding is the elder. The...
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John Wesley Ischy, 1885-1973
John Wesley was born February 1, 1885 to Jacob and Elizabeth Roth Ischy in their home just across the Ohio River from West Virginia in Hannibal, Ohio. Both Jacob and Elizabeth were immigrants from German-speaking Bern...
R.C. Sproul Remembered
I never had the opportunity to talk with R.C. Sproul but at one time in my life I read much of what he had written and had listened to many of his lectures. Audios and videos from Ligonier—when it was in frigid...
Willis G. Craig, 1834-1911
Willis Green Craig was born September 24, 1834 on his father’s estate named Waveland near Danville, Kentucky. The infant boy was named for his mother’s father, Willis Green, who moved to Kentucky from Virginia in 1783...
Train Up Your Child, Celebrate the Reformation
Proverbs 22:6 is a familiar Bible verse for many Christians—Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it, and it is the locus classicus, the key passage, cited by churches to...
Reforming Worship Music, Wittenberg and Geneva
A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; our helper he amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing are the familiar opening words written by Martin Luther in his great hymn, A Mighty Fortress. It was composed...
